Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of glance
comparative more glancing · superlative most glancing
- Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.
His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw.
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She looked with a grudging eye on this waste of life and beauty—there was none for him; and the sight of the coffin, with its deep black pall borne slowly along the glancing path, was a contrast of unutterable misery. It was a relief to change the cheerful meadow for the dark umbrage of the forest which they now entered.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 324–325
plural glancings
- A sideways look; a glance.
No doubt, sometimes there are comprehensive glancings at, and interminglings of different future eras of prophecy.
1856, David Brown, Christ's second coming: will it be pre-millennial?
Translations
Italian radente
- radentemaking superficial contact
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